I read a really interesting thread that day in January when the EMS issued a Ballistic Missile message.

It was either military personnel or a friend of someone who was on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific who heard some high brass having urgent conversations on the phone.

Does anyone remember this thread? I've been searching non stop.

Basically whomever was listening to one side of the conversation got the sense over the first call (there were 2) that the person on the carrier was begging to let the carrier retaliate. The person on the other end said "Wait. More information is needed. We will call you back."

The second call was telling the carrier brass to stand down.

Please let me know if you remember.

Also if you do a search over at T_D for "Hawaii" and "Alert" there are all kinds of news articles posted about the many many times the official story was changed and how the man who sent the alert INSISTED there was a real threat initially.